Healer-boy

Vesper chewed on her thoughts for a moment. she felt… caught off guard by the sudden changes Oleander was implementing. They'd been living their days one after the other with very little difference between them. She knew exactly what had caused the change, she was just a little afraid of the why.

She didn't say anything as he rattled on about the change, about her getting stronger. Her lessons with Wilder had stopped, the plague had upset their schedule. It was his first word that prompted her to speak. Almost as if commanded to. “What… what did the sex mean to you?” She was looking at her paws, her heart hammering. “Will it be in my duties from now on?”

"Speech"